LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Members of the Spalding Sub-Aqua Club took part in an underwater sponsored 'fin' along the 2 lh mile Coronation Channel—a flood relief channel in Spalding. The 'fin' was swum in darkness, starting at 7pm, and over £100... - View image in PDF

Mr. W. Fortescue Barratt, the Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, died suddenly on March 26th last, at the age of 73. He had spent the greater part of his life as a civil servant in the Exchequer and Audit Department of...

Commodore The Right Hon. The Earl Howe (right), Chairman of the Committee of Management from 1956 to 1964: as at home in a lifeboat as at an international conference—or at the wheel of a high-speed car.. - View image in PDF

SEPTEMBER 30TH. - MARGATE KENT.

At 5.35 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities that a fishing boat was in distress three miles west of Margate pier, and the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil...

On the evening of the 15th December the German consul reported that the skipper of the German trawler Brandenburg, of Weser- munde, which had just anchored in the harbour, was seriously ill. A whole S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea,...

At 12.15 P.M. on the 12th October it was reported that the fishing boat Good Luck, of Folkestone, was in distress. The coastguard could see that the boat was flying a flag, but could not read the signal. It was decided to launch the motor...

On November 2 a delegation from the Spanish Red Cross of the Sea lifeboat society paid a goodwill visit to RNLI HQ and depot at Poole, going on the next day to visit Lymington and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat stations and the ILB depot... - View image in PDF

THE Motor Life-boat of the Ramsgate type, which was sent to Southend-on- Sea last May, is to be a gift from the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, which has not only presented the boat, costing £8,500, but has endowed her. She is to be...